La Gault le Fôret

After some excellent days in Paris (even though Arne only got through 1/3 of the War Museum...) we have settled down in this small and obscure village  somewhere in Champagne. More famous for its sparkling wine than its YWAM (Youth with a mission) base, it's still a very good place for us to be. Right honey?

Of course, kjekken...

So, what are we doing here? Wasn't this supposed to be vacation?!

We have the privilege to be volunteering at the base where our fellow Norwegian and Kristkirken folks, Vidar and Elisabeth with kids, are living and serving our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Our project is to clean and fix a wall, pluss painting the fence on it. Let's have a quick look

Guess which parts that have been cleaned... Neat, isn't it?

Paris - La ville de lumière

How to summarize five days in Paris without spending to much ink and taking to much of your time? By letting the photos do the story telling... so here we go

Boat trip on the Seine

 

The view from Montmartre

Arne at the war museum

Notre Dame

Versailles

The huge garden in Versailles

July 14. - Bastille day

And in the evening of july 14., the most spectacular fireworks we have ever seen... In the front of the Eiffel tower accompanied by songs from the greatest musicals.... WOW!
(The picture is taken before the show really started, we don't have any pictures fro, the actually show...sorry...)

So, that's Paris in a few words... Now we're at the YWAM-base in Champagne, more about that will come... :)

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Leaving Bordeaux...

July 10. we had to say goodbye to all our friends at Bordeaux...

This house was our home for ten days, and the family who lives there is truly great!

...And than we were on the train to Paris...

Paris

Vi koser oss stort i Paris.... <3
Romantisk og flott by!|
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St. Emilion

Thursday and friday we were in a beautiful village, St. Emilion.
Our good friends, Faith & Luc, showed us this charming village with lots of narrow streets, nice shops, beautiful old buildings, winecellars, vineyards etc etc...
We had a romantic  night at one of the many vineyard guesthouses, and its passionate owner showed us the vineyard and winecellar, and he arranged a session of winetasting for us. Here's some pictures, and (of course) another video :)

Bordeaux

We arrived in Bordeaux wednesday night after a long day with travelling. We were welcomed by Luc and Marc at the trainstation and we drove to Pompignac (aprox half an hour driving from Bordeaux centre), and we met our great hostfamily; the Gischlers!

Now we have allready been here more than a week having a lot of fun together with great people. Talking partly french, partly english and finishing off with hand language we have been able to communicate quite well, even joking around, having some pretty good laughs :)

Well, what have we been up to? Shopping, youth meeting, EATING, churchmeeting, tabletennis, EATING, seeing Arnes old university, reading, resting, being with great people, visiting some pretty impressive sights...

Check this out for example; "mirroir de l'eau", "vannspeilet":

and this:  Dune du Pyla - a huge sand dune of 60mill m3 at the Atlantic coast *WAOW*

We will come back with more later...
Now we're going for St. Emilion, a small, very typical French village... More about that later :)

day4:

Here is a short description of our travel from Nunspeet to Bordeaux....... Enjoy :)

A short summary - the Netherlands

Our marvelous journey started with an excellent meal at Bergen Airport Flesland with Haaland seniors wishing us a great voyage to France, the land of the baguette. Well not  just the baguette.. First a short detour to Holland, the land of the neat and orderly fashioned gardens (you better keep up with your neighbour or else...)
We met with the lovely Lenneke van Veen, the former DTS mentor of Miriam, who welcomed us to her sweet home in Nunspeet (approx 25000 habitants and 30000 flowers).

Day2: In Nunspeet, We'll give you the keywords: Outdoor breakfast in the sun, bicycling (of course...), sunbathing, sunburn and swimming in the local lake in the middle of the forest. Local food: Frikandel special (higly recommended!) at the local restaurant.

Day3: Amsterdam, sightseeing, channel bus, super guiding by our local host Lenneke, frozen yoghurt at Freeze. And the sun was indeed shining making the norwegians swet... (no surprise really for those who know Arne). Pancakes a la Holland and some Ligretto ended the day superbly.